Category: Philosophy
Nothing is ever really finished
The last two days I was a persistent viral disease that came very suddenly slowed somewhat. Just in time for the weekend were the runny nose, the body aches and general fatigue at the door and have my normal plan of life first again thrown off course.
But I have a plan at all? Sometimes I doubt it very anxious if I have any plan at all. Especially when the creative energy to the general slump again is free and you will try is the same eternal question "Where do I get started anyway?"
I have thousands of projects started, and on very many things at the same time, paradoxically, mostly pleasure. I usually start with a huge enthusiasm and make the case then two, three days - to me the motivation to leave abruptly and I want to do something completely different. And so I hangel me of "project" to "project" and nothing is ever really finished. I always only partial victories to earn the little fragments of my work and they line up quietly side by side, but no more right to be respected, or achieve a measurable "success." For how one defines success in the narrow sense? If it did not help me, as if it is on the web and can be considered, it is not enough then? If someone has read it, if someone lights up the day or perhaps even obscured, has challenged and helped in the end? Or if it is simply black and white, without banks, without a stop in the eternal sea of bits and bytes flowing?
Sense
"Sense" can do so many things in life. It is very dependent on the proper attitude, the character, lived on the experience of the parents, relatives and friends that shape us all with their opinions.
Not always is the meaning of which we believe or feel at all "that it is the right thing, even the socially recognized or easiest way. So young and students often have a very strong sense of justice, freedom and the good in people, but if you experience in life does, one will soon discover that the world often works quite differently and sometimes violent resistance to actually "good beliefs are. "
By the Company generally accepted sense solutions, for example, children are getting, married, have a good job, be promoted to build security in old age, a house. Perhaps even more success in the sport, club life and in politics.
Memories and future
What is actually so irritating to the past?
Memories are for us to understand the actual method that we have a life that we have an identity in the intoxication of the developments and changes. That our soul, the center of our experience of the anchor of our life to everything around the spans.
Memories are a kind of map or compass for the future life. People who have no memory can be in real life not only very difficult to orient or (as in amnesia ). It makes sense to revive its own memories regularly. They can not change, although they experienced more like a movie, but you can the emotional reactions that are linked to change and adjust retroactively the angle of viewing.
Much of what one has experienced before, one can see with the new adult awareness of the present changed sober and mature. Errors that have been made, can be corrected, maybe laugh about it.
Man has only the past, present and future. The past is the material with which to work on the experience and logical thinking, quick reactions and decisions expected to present and the future is completely unknown. However, it is possible to calculate from the experience of past patterns and expectations for the future to assess and to believe in any way ".
If we were not able to go completely unknown ways if we would not dare to venture also recommend this completely unknown, we would only go in circles and never really come forward and grow.
Older people like to wallow in the past, sometimes it looks as if this is a special code for age. For these people a conversation at eye level is often impossible, immediately they start to count from her wealth of experience and examples of lectures, the lived memories covered the present. Younger people feel patronized and then quickly passed over, because with them it is the reverse: If you are young, it wants to gain experience, one would necessarily in the unknown and can not expect fast enough.
Perhaps that is the reason why the generational dialogue is sometimes so difficult?
What to do with the many memories that life has to offer like that? It seems to me that writing and speaking are very good possibilities. Or practicing a profession that deals with such topics: archaeologist , archivist , a history teacher, author, dream researcher, shrink ...
Or would you prefer futurologist ? Scientist, astronaut, visionary?
Blogging and Networking
Yes, once again, an article over blogging. It may not be enough, because "blogging about blogging" means to consider the existence and the world to analyze the immediate present. As this ever-changing and constantly new impressions we recovered well, it does not hurt, can intervals about blogging itself to recapitulate in regular. It is ultimately a philosophy of modern communication culture and also touches on other classic forms of communication and social reality.
Blogging is a social issue to one hundred percent. Without the network, without the comments a blog has no value. If you want to network but it is you rely on to get into the minds of other blog authors and to try to build on their character and their writings.
It is a bit paradoxical: The blogs live from the networking and the open culture of debate, but ultimately, only one author writes in a few blogs to share the stage several authors.
The blog as a favored technique is a certain narcissistic way of thinking, but requires in turn by the author that he has to network.
And what about the silent representatives of the scene, which have very good ideas, but do not pass the ability or desire, even in strong competition with others? What about the sexes, where it again is always studies that women in the open competition out of the way to go rather than boys?
Ultimately, blogs are just as real and behave like conversations among people.
There are social strata and of course there are more people who just tell from her private life and tend to a few who work for such respectable values like "social justice" or "political education".
Many blogs are pure fun blogs or mix the issues simply confused colorful.
Then there are the broad front of commercial blogs, the numbers have a big weight and push back the purely personal blog. The fear is, fanned by the media about the publication of private content on the public, not exactly improved the situation for personal bloggers. A formerly popular medium is discussed on the wall and talked bad.
There is no right line with blogs and bloggers, and therefore can also break friendships quite quickly again. The effort, which can plug into the network must be proportionate, is very high. In that time you can not write their own articles. If one day can only reserve one hour for blogging, this is used up very quickly. So the question is, what is better? Should I look for new blogs, comment on other, working on the blogroll? Or I'll consider it in the privacy of my thoughts and pursuing navel gazing?
If I want to grow and connect me, the question remains: Where do I want? Where should the focus is what's important, what is important?
I look for people to blog about the same subject or I prefer the hard contrast love?
A good approach, it can be when you write about human problems burdening one. About this suffering community can be built and at the same time it creates added value for societal issues that would otherwise not find a hearing. The natural threshold remains the published privacy and the fact that it can be observed at any time anonymously and possibly "an idiot does."
Furthermore, then you get a reputation as a problem-Bloggers and those who want to do what people have been working with? Would not we all high-quality contacts and increase my own value is not in relation to my own contacts and other resources that can distribute the I?
It is not everyone equally well, thus exposing themselves to the public and for mental stability, it is not always an advantage. In the worst case, it is the shot backfires and his own mental stability will be endangered by the escape into the online world. (See, eg, Medio Mans article on -line games )
A lack of feedback, lack of publicly expressed affection and concern seems to be a social problem that is significant for our time.
Our corporate structure is getting smaller and the tendency is to small or single households. Normal social contacts, which are free from competition or jealousy thinking, rather rare. Attention to a resource that is precious and is usually distributed only increased when you can give yourself a lot of it.
Blogging in itself is at best a step out of isolation, preparation to be on the real life, but it does not replace the real human emotions and can only be a kind of game, in which exercise, in the social sense to behave correctly.
In addition, we have trained Gedächntis, the language ability and conscience.
A Blogging without a conscience is like writing without filler.
A blog without networking is like a house without electricity or running water.
Have or being?
I am always amazed at how well does this classic on our present time and the pious wish of Erich, something that soon turns to good, and the young generation (the seventies), it is capable of changes in physical / emotional areas bring about are unfortunately not (yet) this morning.
The book that I is part, and across every now and then read a complex response to an entire lifestyle. It allows to recognize this lifestyle of "having to" not at all. It may be a basis for many consumer and, more recently critics' Bank / Manager critics of the modern age, but it is not complete and it is not the last word.
Fromm describes as not detailed enough, in which the temptations of having-type are exactly, and why so many people are susceptible to this lifestyle. The genetic, psychological bases for the accumulation of things I miss a little.